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Security researcher, ex-pentester, ex-developer, boat-botherer, reverse engineer, amateur cryptographer, electronics tinkerer, digital rights proponent, laser enthusiast, LD wannabe, half-orc nobleman of the evening, promulgator of useless information.

Strengths: Security, Cryptography, Win32 API, Windows Internals, C#, .NET, PHP, x86 assembly, Arduino

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767 How to store salt? Jul 20 '12
518 Is my developer's home-brew password security right or wrong, and why? Dec 18 '12
266 Why shouldn't we roll our own? Aug 6 '12
236 What technical reasons are there to have low maximum password lengths? Mar 30 '13
203 How to approach replacing md5 for transporting Unity game data to a remote server Jan 2 '17
201 Can a computer virus be stored somewhere else than on the hard drive? Apr 21 '16
201 Why wasn't the KRACK exploit discovered sooner? Oct 16 '17
164 How do you explain the necessity of “nuke it from orbit” to management and users? Nov 19 '12
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